Freedom and independence form my character.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

The time is always right to do the right thing

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

They alone live, who live for others.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.